Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz

Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz (28 January 1885-6 June 1947) was President of Poland from 30 September 1939 to 5 June 1947, succeeding Ignacy Moscicki and preceding the government-in-exile leader August Zaleski and the Polish People's Republic president Boleslaw Bierut.

Biography
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz was born on 28 January 1885 in Kutaisi, Georgia, Russian Empire, and he joined the Polish Youth Organization in St. Petersburg. Raczkiewicz served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, but after the war he became an advocate for the independence of Poland, fighting in the Polish-Soviet War from 1919 to 1920. Raczkiewicz served as Minister of Security under President Ignacy Moscicki, but in 1939, he escaped to Angers in France after the Invasion of Poland. Raczkiewicz became the President of the Polish government-in-exile in France and then the United Kingdom during World War II, but in February 1945 the Allied Powers betrayed him at the Yalta Conference by withdrawing their recognition of the government-in-exile and letting the Soviets set up their own Polish People's Republic. He died in Ruthin, Wales in 1947.